mortality

It is not just the reality that we will one day die that should inform our pastoral presence, but also the fact that even now we live only by the grace of God. The grace of God in Christ is not only true, but it turns out that it is all that we have.

In this space between Christmastide and the Baptism of our Lord, it is good to recall that God became man, and not for a moment, playing with human likeness and then giving it up for better things. This is a God who goes to the place of wielded swords and worse. And the child hums in the stable, "become like me."

This week Covenant will host a series of essays that address a cluster of realities: a drastically falling global birthrate; the reduction in the...

Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead, St. Paul, and the Transfiguration of Mortality Adapted from a presentation given March 6 at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, Houston. I...

Among many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world was an increasing sense of mortality. This was very evident in the circles of...

My daughter is moving into college this month. Emotionally, I’m okay (so far), but my mind is really confused. I don’t know how so...

By Cole Hartin Lent is good time to think about death. It’s a good time to think about death because it’s the time when we...

By Joseph Mangina "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” So run the familiar words spoken during the imposition of ashes...

By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake...

By Ephraim Radner One of the most difficult things I have done as a pastor is to stand beside people as they face a terrible...